New Data Breach exposes 57 million records

A massive 73 GB data breach was discovered during a regular security audit of publicly available servers with the Shodan search engine. Prior to this publication, there were at least 3 IPs with the identical Elasticsearch clusters misconfigured for public access. First IP was indexed by Shodan on November 14th, 2018. An open Elasticsearch instance exposed personal info of 56,934,021 US citizens, with information such as first name, last name, employers, job title, email, address, state, zip, phone number, and IP address.